saturation
noun
- a saturating or being saturated
- the degree of purity of a color, as measured by its freedom from mixture with white; intensity of hue
- the condition of a magnetic substance that has been magnetized to the maximum
See saturation in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(săchˌə-rāˈshən)
nouna. The act or process of saturating.
b. The condition of being saturated.
c. The condition of being full to or beyond satisfaction; satiety.
- Physics A state of a ferromagnetic substance in which an increase in applied magnetic field strength does not produce an increase in magnetization.
- Chemistry The state of a compound or solution that is fully saturated.
- Meteorology A condition in which air at a specific temperature contains all the water vapor it can hold; 100 percent relative humidity.
- Vividness of hue; degree of difference from a gray of the same lightness or brightness. Also called intensity. See Table at color.
- Intensive shelling or bombing of a military target to achieve total destruction.
- The flooding of a market with all of a commodity that consumers can purchase.
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